8-1. The United Mutual and Accident Insurance Company has a
large pool of clerical employees who process insurance
application forms on networked computers. When the
company hires a new clerical employee, it takes that
person about 48 minutes to process a form. The learning
curve for this job is 88%, but no additional learning will
take place after about the 100th form is processed. United
Mutual has recently acquired a smaller competitor that will
add 800 new forms per week to its clerical pool. If an
employee works six hours per day (excluding breaks,
meals, and so on) per five-day week, how many employees
would be hired to absorb the extra workload?
